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From: "intransitiveupdates" <intransitiveupdates@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: intransitive-owner@yahoogroups.com
Date: Fri, 01 Mar 2002 20:52:44 -0000
To: intransitive@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [intransitive] March 2002 Update
Hello, folks!
The beginning of the month always brings two welcome events: time to pay the
rent (always so much fun! I love my landlord!) and another update from your
favorite record label. That's right, Intransitive (that's what you were
thinking, right? Right, of course it was). And BOY OH BOY do I have some
news for you this month...
First of all, the next two Intransitive CDs are at the pressing plant, which
means that they ought to be out in just a couple of weeks. These will be
int020 NERVE NET NOISE "Meteor Circuit" and infr01 TOSHIYA TSUNODA "Extract
from Field Recordings Acrchive #3: Solid Vibration".
Nerve Net Noise are the Japanese home-made synthesizer duo who confused and
irritated just about everyone with thier Meme CD, "160/240", several years
ago. Each NNN album is an astoundingly thorough exploration of one aspect of
what thier rough and barely controllable synthesisers can do. "Meteor
Circuit" explores rhythms and beats, but it's no minimal glitch album (would
I do that to you? c'mon, you should know Intransitive better than that by
now); they turned the knobs until the machines produced rhythmic pulses,
then hit "record" and let the instruments decide what would happen next. The
"natural" impefections of the synths determined how each piece would evolve
with little or no interaction from the artists. The duo has great ears, and
were able to edit the works into a coherent, intense and (it must be said
bluntly) astoundingly bizarre album. There isn't anyone else doing what
Nerve Net Noise is doing, and no convenient genre or style that they fit
into. I could listen to this all day long, and frequently that's exactly
what I do.
Toshiya Tsunoda should already be a familiar name to you, since you own and
love the int013 VARIIOUS compilation 2CD and you find his track to be among
the most beautiful things you've ever heard. Did I read your mind? Did I
know eaxctly what you were thinking? How did I do that?! Wow, amazing!
Tsunoda is a member of the WrK group of sound and installation artists,
along with Jio Shimizo and m/s, whose work deals with vibration phenomena
and thier relationship to perception. With the apparently impersonal air of
a purely scientific cataloguist, Tsunoda records minute vibrations of air in
different settings, mostly outdoors and near to a body of water, and
meticulously documents every event that occoured in the area during the time
of the recording. What is most remarkable about his recordings is thier
subtle poetry and musicality. Each one is unmistakably a musical
composition, even when it is something as deceptively simple as the
vibration caused by interference between a dock worker's drill and a 120 Hz
wave coming off the side of a boat, or a door, or a fence. This one is the
first release on Infringitive, the new collaborative label with Giuseppe
Ielasi's Fringes Recordings in Italy.
More news? Sure!:
Intransitive will be presenting one concert in March...
MNortham
with: Jarrod Fowler/Linda Aubrey duo
3/19
at the Zeitgeist Gallery in Cambridge.
www.zeitgeist-gallery.org
www.kaon.org/mnortham
I happen to think MNortham does fantastic work, so I'm very much looking
forward to his first ever Boston performance. We are presenting or
co-presenting many performances in April (by Pauline Oliveros, John Hudak,
If Bwana, probably others that I'm forgetting right now) so just check the
"events" section of the Intransitive website for more info about those.
Also, there's the BIG TOUR! Kapotte Muziek/Goem and the Stelzer/Talbot duo
will be running around the northeastern United States in mid- to late April.
Here's some tour dates:
4/12. New York City, NY (UNCONFIRMED)
Goem, Howard Stelzer & Jason Talbot, Taylor Deupree
4/13. Bard College. (Annandale-on-Hudson, NY).
Goem, Howard Stelzer & Jason Talbot, Taylor Dupree, Jason Lescalleet
4/15. Zeitgeist Gallery (Cambridge, MA).
Kapotte Muziek, Howard Stelzer & Jason Talbot, Roel Meelkop
4/16. Flywheel. (Easthampton, MA).
Kapotte Muziek, Howard Stelzer & Jason Talbot, Roel Meelkop,
TBA
4/17. Renssalear Polytechnic Institute. (Troy, NY).
Kapotte Muziek, Howard Stelzer & Jason Talbot, Evidence
4/18. C-Pop Gallery. (Detroit, MI).
Kapotte Muziek, Howard Stelzer & Jason Talbot, Shifts, the Hearing
Trumpet
4/19. Lampo/6Odum. (Chicago, IL).
Kapotte Muziek, Howard Stelzer & Jason Talbot
4/20. Lampo/6Odum. (Chicago, IL).
Goem, Roel Meelkop, Freiband
also, the 2002 BEIGE World Cassette Jockey Championships
(
http://www.post-data.org/cassette), in which I will compete... and WIN.
It's like a battle-DJ tournament, but with cassettes. I have four minutes to
prove that I'm the best. Should be easy.
4/21. AVANTRONICS Festival. (Columbus, OH)
Kapotte Muziek, Howard Stelzer and Jason Talbot, others TBA
4/22. Philadelphia, PA. (UNCONFIRMED)
4/23. Kapotte Muziek in-store appearance in NYC (UNCONFIRMED)
As you see, there are a few dates still unconfirmed, but this should be
sufficient. If you live in or near any or all of these cities, c'mon out and
say hello! Frans de Waard, Roel Meelkop and Peter Duimelinks will trade off
being Goem and Kapotte Muziek at some shows, and will perform solo under
various guises as well. It should be a lot of fun.
I think that that's enough news for now. See you next month!
your pal,
Howard Stelzer. Intransitive Recordings.
http://www.intransitiverecordings.com
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